Baldur von Schirach

Baldur von Schirach (9 May 1907-8 August 1974) was the Reichsjugendfuhrer of Nazi Germany from 1931 to 1940, preceding Artur Axmann, and Gauleiter of Vienna from August 1940 to May 1945, succeeding Josef Buerckel.

Biography
Baldur von Schirach was born in Berlin, German Empire in 1907, the son of a German noble father and an American mother who was descended from two signers of the US Declaration of Independence - Thomas Heyward, Jr. and Arthur Middleton. He joined the Nazi Party in 1925 and became president of the Nazi student league in 1928, serving until 1932. He became the national youth leader of the Nazis, serving from 1931 to 1940, and of Germany in 1933. In this capacity he built up the Hitler Youth into a national mass organization. From 1940 to 1945 he was the Nazi gauleiter of Vienna. At the Nuremberg Trials, he was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. He was released in 1966, and he died in Kroev, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany in 1974.